PARIS — Your final medal table update from the swimming venue: United States eight gold medals, Australia seven gold medals, the United Nations of Bob Bowman seven gold medals.
O.K., that’s an unofficial tabulation. But the international impact of America’s best swim coach was a major factor in these Paris Olympics, and it hints at some of the challenges the U.S. will face in trying to reassert its dominance by 2028 when the Summer Games come to Los Angeles.
